doublet

alternate

I just stumbled upon this topic and had to chuckle, since i had a schematic lying around my hard drive for about a year now, looking quite similar. Even used the same InAmp. Had a breadboard version up and running, and began working on a layout for a smd version consisting of three tiny (2x3cm) pcbs connected by flexibel connectors. One board as analog stage with amp and filters, the second with the microcontroller (atmega64) and a third with rs232 and a small rf transceiver module.That way i intended to mount the entire rig directly on the headband, supplied by a small LiPo Battery.Also began looking into the possibility of using active electrodes without the for contact gel, but never came around to do some testing.I had to put the thing on hiatus however, since other things have taken up my time since then.

Thought you might be interested of how others tried something similar. Best of luck to you and your project.

Below my design for the analog stage. I used three electrodes though, with the third directly tied as reference.

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merkz

Hah cool, I think EOG is the way to go with this type of thing (and it's just cool).

The Serial C# grapher that got posted inspired me to write an app to go with this. I've been using KST in linux to do the graphing, but now I'm going to try writing my own specifically for this, maybe with an integrated dream journal to tie journal entries with the graphs. And it'd be nice to configure everything from an app instead of accessing a menu through minicom.

merkz

I got the code somewhat cleaned up. I removed the speaker since it kept waking up my GF. I removed the DS1307 in favor of using a running timer and syncing time on the PC. The PC can give commands to the arduino by sending "#key=value" over the serial connection. The PC gets updates from the arduino at about 375Hz using 115200 baud.

I decided to skip doing a custom app, not worth the work since I got my issues with KST resolved

The autocalibration didn't work all that great, I found it easier to look at the graph and adjust the gains by hand. Would be nice to get it working tho.

merkz

I use this on the PC side to collect the data from arduino and output it to the file KST monitors for graphing. Theres no flow control between the arduino and PC so it does some checks to make sure the data "looks" correct since it sometimes gets messed up if the receive buffer overflows

quackmaster7000

I have to say, this is a superb project. Probably the coolest application I have ever seen with the Arduino. I would be more than willing to assemble this circuit and make a nice finished product (if all the schematics are all in place...), giving you credit for the design. Very, very cool 8-)

cafmike

rogajogey

I was just reading about the zeo the other day and was really hoping someone could make such a device for lucid dreaming.

I got some questions for the creator

Why did you choose to track the eye movements through the temple and not the frontal lobes?

The zeo personal sleep coach tracks the frontal lobes which are located on the forehead using foam pads which you don't need to use any gel. They said their tech which they call softwave is patented and is based on polysomnography which they say is the most reliable way of detecting sleep cycles including REM and that this is what they use in sleep labs all around the world.

The zeo is a wireless device that communicates on the 2.4mhz band, the zeo alarm clock has an sd card which all the nights sleep data is recorded onto which can then be viewed by inserting it into a PC.

Will your device work via a cable to a PC/notebook that sits by your beside table?

Can you not make a console that communicates with the headband wireleslly without needing a computer by your bed?

I see in your first post of this thread that your headband has the same tech like the remdreamer which is TWC for two way communication. The remdreamer has just got this new upgrade out which is a rem speaker that can work with TWC do you think your device could support this, the remspeaker allows you to record an audio clip which can be played when the rem sensor detects that you are dreaming.

I would love to see this device of yours being able to have the following features

wirelessTWClight and beep cuesaudio cuesconsole with microphone for recording audio cues (so no computer needed)4 LED's for each eye, a light and sound machine upgrade for the future that could get your brainwaves ready for lucid dreaming. This is what the dreammaker pro has. Maybe we can forget this feature.

Anyway if you could have all those features and maybe or maybe not the last one then that would be so awesome.

I would love to see you building these as a complete unit and as well offering the flashed chip and parts for people to build it themselves.

Awesome and please keep up the great work, this is amazing work that really has got to be finished. The best idea I have seen in many years.